Vacation

Luke had a week of vacation in September, and one of the things we did was go over to the Mall of America to visit the Aquarium (and the Lego store!). The boys loved the aquarium. (Luke and I thought it was overpriced for as small as it was, but that may be because we're cheap and old.)

They loved the tanks of jellyfish.

Here's Benny trying to hug some!

There were lots of oohs and aahs and pointing, although it was a little challenging to capture it because there was always something else just as exciting coming up!

The Lego store was closed for remodeling, but Ethan was a trooper and enjoyed browsing through the much smaller version they had open. We also got to stop on the way home at Cousin Trevor's football game!

Pictures ...

Since I'm not going to catch up with all the posts I was going to write, I just posted pictures here. Some of them are repeats from other blog posts, but some are new. Enjoy!

The Fire Station

Our local homeschool group recently had a field trip to the fire station. Ethan and Alex loved it! One of several things they got to do was spray the fire hose. They did it together since Alex needed a bit of help.



They both thought it was great!

The summer is over, we started school a couple of weeks ago, and despite my good intentions there are many blog posts that haven't been written. I have pictures of family gatherings, a field trip to the fire station (although I may share just one picture from that anyway), and summer activities that I had intended to post about. I am in awe of the moms that homeschool, run a business on the side, do all kinds of creative things with their kids, and find time to blog about all of it - I am not nearly that good!

So instead, I'll just post these pictures of my boys. They are all pictures that make me want to grab the boys and hold on to them ... maybe if I hug them tight enough they won't grow up so fast ...

Wishes

I was helping Alex in the bathroom today, and as we pulled his pants up he was muttering to himself.

"What are you saying?" I asked him.

"I just wish we could turn this into dirt," he said, gesturing at the floor. "Then I'd turn into a steam roller and you'd turn into a crane and Benny would turn into a cement mixer and Ethan would turn into a dump truck."

"What about Papa?"

"Ah, let's see ... he'd be a digger. And Yellow would be a fence."

And that would be a perfect world to a three-year-old.